Tampa Channelside Office: Best Decision we ever Made

6 years ago1,556 Views

Location, location, location, applies to Real Estate offices as
well. Yet you will find some tucked away in a no-traffic strip mall
or in the 3rd floor of a high rise building. Truthfully, a year
ago, I didn't think it really mattered.

I was reluctant to have an office in Channelside. Although it is
one of the most visited streets in Tampa and having an office there
would give us the high profile we wanted, the numbers didn't make
sense. The numbers didn't make sense either for us to start our own
brokerage. We would have made more money staying in our current
brokerage with our team. But my husband wanted it. He said his guts
told him that's the direction we should go. We debated about this
for a long time and although the numbers still didn't make any
sense in doing this, we opened our office and a new brokerage in
April of 2008.

6 months later, we have 230 closings from 14 agents. 2 of the
agents are me and my husband who are responsible for only 5 of
those closings. So a majority of those are from 12 agents. We have
since added 6 more agents; 3 of which are still on training. Do the
numbers make sense now? Oh heck, yeah. Question is why we didn't do
this sooner. We have to give credit to our hard working agents.
They put in extraordinary efforts and that's why they get
extraordinary results. A majority of our sales have been in new
construction and builder inventories. That's why builders love us
and give us their specials before they make print.

So, if and when you're ready to embark on your own brokerage,
don't discount the power of location and traffic when choosing an
office location. Good luck to all of you. May your closings close
and your short sales short.